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Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Low-Cost Devices To Assist African AIDS Patients
With the aid of a $250,000.00 gift from the Parker Hannifin Corporation to help launch the effort, J. Paul Robinson and his team are working to lower the cost of an important AIDS test from $12 to 50 cents or less.
The amount of CD4 cells in the blood indicates both how well a patient’s immune system is doing as well as how far AIDS has advanced. When the count drops below a set amount, the patient can then be given antiviral drugs; yet, because current technology is expensive to operate and maintain, the tests are too expensive for most Africans. Purdue University News Service has the story on how J. Paul Robinson, a professor in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering and the School of Veterinary Medicine, is working with Parker Hannifin and other partners to provide low-cost, easy-to-maintain systems that can make the tests affordable.
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Friday, May 26, 2006
A Multispectral Advance For Flow Cytometry
For years, scientists have studied the Earth by examining not just a single image in a single wavelength, or even a limited range, but by studying that image in a variety of frequencies. This process, known as multispectral imaging, is now being applied by J. Paul Robinson, a professor in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering and a professor of cytomics in the School of Veterinary Medicine, to flow cytometry and medical analysis. Read more here on this advancement.
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